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SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES 
2005
- A. Rotkirch: Miten sosiologinen tieto kohtaa evoluutioteorian? Teoksessa A.Meurman-Solin&I.Pyysiäinen (toim.): Ihmistieteet tänään, ss. 62-90.  Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 2005.
- A.Rotkirch: "Sauver ses fils": migrations trans-européennes comme stratégies maternelles. Migrations Societé, Dossier: Femmes dans la migrations, Vol.17, No99-100, mai-août 2005, pp.161-172. (pdf, NB: prefinal version)
- E-Haavio-Mannila, A.Rotkirch & O.Kontula: Contradictory Trends in Sexual Life in St.Petersburg, Estonia and Finland. In Aleksandar Stulhofer & Theo Sandfort (eds) Sexuality and Gender in Postcommunist Eastern Europe and Russia, 317-363. New York, London & Oxford: The Haworth Press.
- J.P.Roos & A.Rotkirch: ?Habitus, naturaleza o educatión? Hacia un paradigma de la sociología evolutiva. In J.Monrela, C.Díaz & J.J.G.Escribano (eds) Viejas Sociedades, nueva Sociologia, 87-100. Madrid : Centro de investigaciones sociológicas, 2005.

2004
- E.Haavio-Mannila & A.Rotkirch: Ydin- ja versoperheet Suomessa ja Pietarissa
- A. Rotkirch: New Woman with Old Feelings? Contrasting Kollontai’s and Colette’s Writings on Love. In Ebba Witt-Brattström (ed) The New Woman and the Aesthetic Opening. Unlocking gender in twentieth-century texts, 137-154. Södertörn, Södertörn Academic Studies, 2004.
-A.Rotkirch: ’Kehykset vai korttipakka? Biologian merkitys sosiologian ihmiskäsityksessä.’ Tieteessä tapahtuu nro 1/04, 17-21.
- E.Haavio-Mannila, J.P.Roos & A.Rotkirch: Olivatko suuret ikäluokat murroksen moottoreita? Sukupolven ja periodin vaikutusten erittelyä. In J.Erola & T-A Wilska (eds) Yhteiskunnan moottori vai kivireki? Suuret ikäluokat ja 60-lukulaisuus, 215-238. Jyväsklyä, SoPhi 92, 2004.
- '"Besputnaia zhizn'.": Seks, sem'ia i sotsial'naia mobil'nost' v muzhskih avtobiografiah.' In Sergei Oushakine (ed.) Semia. Model dlia sborki, tom I, pp.548-575. Moscow, Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie.
2003
- A.Rotkirch: ’Vem är rädd för städerskan? Globalisering och kvinnors autonoma migration.’ Sociologisk forskning 2/2003: 11-18.
- ’Om nätfamiljens framtid.’ I Henrik Bruun, Fredrik Lindberg & Sam Inkinen (red.) Framtiden i nuet. Helsingfors, Söderströms. 2003.
- A.Rotkirch: ’Naturligtvis? Om moderskap, essentialism och evolutionsteori.’  Naistutkimus-Kvinnoforskning 3/03: 33-47.
- A.Rotkirch: ’Hva er tradisjonalisme? Utvidet moderskap og ekteskap i Aleksandra - Chistyakovas livshistorie.’ Kvinneforskning 2/2003: 31-46.
- J.P.Roos & A.Rotkirch: Habituksen paluu? Evoluutioteorian huomioimisesta sosiologian ihmisnäkemyksessä, osa I-II. Tieteessä tapahtuu 1/03, pp.33-41 & 2/03, pp.33-37.
- D.Bertaux, A.Rotkirch & P.Thompson: ‘Introduction.’ In D.Bertaux, P.Thompson & A.Rotkirch: On Living Through Soviet Russia, pp.1-22. London, Routledge. 2003.
- A.Rotkirch: ‘"What kind of sex can you talk about?’": acquiring sexual knowledge in three Soviet generations.' In D.Bertaux, P.Thompson & A.Rotkirch: On Living Through Soviet Russia, pp.93-119. London, Routledge. 2003.
- A.Rotkirch: '"Coming to stand on firm ground": the making of a Soviet working mother.' In D.Bertaux, P.Thompson & A.Rotkirch: On Living Through Soviet Russia, pp.146-175. London, Routledge. 2003.
- D.Bertaux, P.Thompson & A.Rotkirch: 'Epilogue: researching with interview sources on Soviet Russia.' In D.Bertaux, P.Thompson & A.Rotkirch: On Living Through Soviet Russia, pp.252-257. London, Routledge. 2003.
- J.P. Roos, A.Rotkirch & E. Haavio-Mannila: ‘Do rich men have most sex? Gender, capital and sexual activity in four countries.’ In Kollind, A-K & A.Peterson (eds) Thoughts on family, gender, generation and class. Research Report No 133, Department of Sociology, Göteborg University. 2003.
- E.Haavio-Mannila, O.Kontula & A.Rotkirch: ‘Sexuelle Lebensstile in drei Generationen. Eine Analyse autobiographischer Geschichten über Sexualität und Beziehung.’Sexualforschung 2003; 16; 1-17.
2002
- Sovetskie gendernye kontrakty i ih transformatsiia v sovremennoi Rossii. (with Anna Temkina) Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniia No 11 2002: 4-15.
- 'Sovetskie kul’tury seksual’nosti.' In Elena Zdravomsylova & Anna Temkina: V poiskakh seksual’nosti. Sbornik statej, pp.128-171. St Petersburg: Dmitrii Bulanin.2002.
- A.Rotkirch: ‘Shame, promiscuity and and social mobility in Russian autobiographies from working poor milieus.’ In R. Humphrey & E. Zdravomyslova (ed) Biographical perspectives on European societies, 263-298.Aldershot, Ashgate, 2002.
- Catherine M:n uusi alastomuus. Naistutkimus-Kvinnoforskning 3/02.
- ’Nyt en aio lähteä minnekään…” Valittajan vahvuudet Aleksandra Tshistjakovan omaelämäkerrassa.’ In S.Apo, A.Koivunen, L-M.Rossi & K.Saarikangas (toim.) Itkua ikä kaikki? Kirjoituksia naisesta, vallasta ja väkivallasta, 58-77. Hki: SKS. 2002.
- Verkkoperheen aikakokemuksia. In Riitta Smeds, Kaisa Kauppinen, Kati Yrjänheikki ja Anitta Valtonen (toim.) Tieto ja tekniikka - Missä on nainen?, 62-73. Helsinki: Tekniikan Akateemisten Liitto. 2002.
- ’Verkkoperheen sukupuolittuneesta tulevaisuudesta.’ Teoksessa S.Inkinen, H.Bruun & F.(toim.) Tulevaisuus.nyt. Riskiyhteiskunnan haasteet ja mahdollisuudet. Kymenlaakson ammattikorkeakoulu ja Teknillinen Korkeakoulu, FinnLectura. 2002.
2001
- ‘Emma Goldman’. In Margareta Jolly (ed) Dictionary of Life Writing. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001. 
- ‘Gender Polarisation and Liberalisation: Comparing Sexuality in St Petersburg, Finland and Sweden’ (together with Elina Haavio-Maannila) Idäntutkimus 3/4 2000, pp.4-25.
- ‘Academic Feminism in St Petersburg’, ‘Maria Arbatova’, ‘Marina Liborakina’, ‘Anna Temkina’, 'Elena Zdravomsylova', in Norma Noonan & Carol Nechemias (eds) Dictionary of the Women’s Movement in Russia, pp. 199-201; 202-204; 286-288; ; 337-338; 370-371. Westport, Greenwood Press, 2001. 
2000
- ‘Loving With and Without Words: Same-Sex Experiences in Russian Women’s Autobiographies During Late Socialism’. In Marianne Liljeström, Arja Rosenholm & Irina Savkina (eds) Models of Self. Russian Women’s Autobiographical Texts, 229-245. Helsinki: Kikimora publications. 2000. 
- ‘Mieskysymys Venäjällä’ (The Man Question in Russia). In Naistutkimus/Kvinnoforskning No. 3/2000, 77-79. 
- Cosmodolphins. Recension av Bryld & Lykke: Cosmodolphins. Nordisk Östforskning.
- 'Pirstoutunut vanhemmuus.' (Fractured parenthood) In J.P.Roos & Tommi Hoikkala (eds) 2000-luvun elämä. Sosiologisia teorioita vuosituhannen vaihteesta, 187-200. Helsinki: Gaudeamus. 2000. 
1999
- 'Social Consequences of the 1998 Crisis in Russia: Household Strategies and Their Challenges to Social Policy' (with Marina Liborakina) Idäntutkimus - Finnish Journal of Russian and Eastern European Studies, 2/1999, 24-48. 
- 'Journeys as Sexual Transgression During Late Socialism.' In Jeremy Smith (ed) Beyond the Limits: the Concept of Space in Russian History and Culture, 131-149 Helsinki: Finnish Literary Society, 1999. 
- 'Women’s Agency and the Sexual Revolution in Russia.' In Pirkkoliisa Ahponen (ed) Women's Active Citizenship, 91-104. University of Joensuu: Studies in Social Policy No. 9. 1999.
- 'Skuggfält. Sensocialismens dubbelliv.' (Shadow fields. On the double lives of late socialism.) (together with J.P.Roos). In Broady, Donald (ed.) Kulturens fält. En antologi. 453-467. Göteborg: Daidalos 1999. 
- 'Rakkaustyylit suomalaisessa, virolaisessa ja pietarilaisessa sekusaalielämässä' (Loves Styles in the Sexual Lives of Finns, Estonians and St Petersburg inhabitants) (together with Elina Haavio-Mannila and J.P.Roos). In Juha Kinnunen et al. (eds.) (1999) Terveystieteiden monialainen tutkimus ja yliopistokoulutus, 143-159. Kuopion yliopiston julkaisuja E, Yhteiskuntatieteet 74. Kuopio. 
1998
- 'Generational and Gender Differences in Sexual Life in St.Petersburg and Urban Finland.' (together with Elina Haavio-Mannila). Year-book of Population Research in Finland XXXIV, Population Trends in the Baltic Sea Area. Helsinki: Väestöliitto 1998. 
- 'Toiminta, reflektiivisyys, sukupuoli. Teresa de Lauretiksen subjektinäkemyksestä.' (Action, reflectivity, gender. On Teresa de Lauretis' concept of subjectivity.) In J.P.Roos & Tommi Hoikkala (eds.) Elämänpolitiikka, 169-188. Helsinki: Gaudeamus. 1998. 
1997
- 'Soviet Gender Contracts and Their Shifts in Contemporary Russia' (together with Anna Temkina). Idäntutkimus – Finnish Journal of Russian and Eastern European Studies, 2/1997. 
-  'Women's Sexual Biographies From Two Generations. A First Comparison Between Finland and Russia.' In Viktor Voronkov & Elena Zdravomyslova (eds) Biographical perspectives on post-socialist societies. St Petersburg: Centre of Independent Social Research, 205-210. 1997. (Same in Russian: 'Seksual'nye biografii zhenshchin dvukh pokolenii.', ibidem, pp. 93-99.) 
- '"Hökkelit suuren joen rannalla." Äidit ja tyttäret Venäjällä.' ("Like cottages on the shore of a big river." Mothers and daughters in Russia.) In J.P.Roos & Anna Rotkirch (eds.): Vanhemmat ja lapset. Helsinki: Gaudeamus. 1997. 
1996
- ‘Introduction’ (together with Elina Haavio-Mannila). In Anna Rotkirch & Elina Haavio-Mannila (eds) Women's Voices in Russia Today, vii-xii. Aldershot, Dartmouth, 1996. 
- 'What Does the (Russian) Woman Want? Women Psychoanalysts Talk' (together with Anna Temkina), in Anna Rotkirch & Elina Haavio-Mannila (eds) Women's Voices in Russia Today, 49-70. Aldershot, Dartmouth, 1996. 
- 'The playing '80s - Russian activity games.' In Danny Saunders, Fred Percival and Matti Vartiainen (eds): The Simulation and Gaming Yearbook Volume 4: Games and Simulations to Enhance Quality Learning, 34-40. London: Kogan Page. 1996. 
1995
- 'Psykoanalyysin toinen aalto ja uusi naisihanne Venäjällä' (The second wave of psychoanalysis and the feminine ideal in Russia), Tiede & Edistys 2/1995, p. 116-127. 
1994
- 'Från statsfråga till kvinnorörelse - kvinnoforskarnas strategier i Ryssland 1989-1993.' (From state question to women's movement - developing women's studies in Russia). Naistutkimus-Kvinnoforskning 2/1994, p.5-15. 

Some recent reviews/recensioner etc
- Lukemisto EU:n naisille? Review of Thinking Differently, A Reader in European women's studies, Naistutkimus 3/05
- Om den vilda feminismens historia, Astra Nova 2/03.
- Är hon inte klok? (rec av Tuva Korsström: Kan kvinnor tänka, Hbl 12.5.02)
- Pappa kan älska! Par vs familj del III (rec av Jaana Vuori: Isät, äidit ja ammattilaiset, Ny Tid våren 01)
- Par vs familj del II (rec av Veijola & Jokinen, Ny Tid våren 01) 
- Kan man älska? Par vs familj del I. (Recension av Riitta Jallinoja: Perheen aika). Ny Tid 2.4.01.
- ‘En annan modernitet, en annan kvinnlighet?’ (Another modernity, another femininity?) Nya Argus No. 5/2000, 107-109. 
(for other more or less academic texts in Swedish and Finnish, see Kolumner & essäer)

Academic dissertations: 
- Rotkirch, Anna (1993) Att spela med verksamhet. Om Moskvas metodologiska cirkels verksamhetstori och spelmetod. (Playing with activity. On the activity theory and game method of the Moscow methodological circle.) MA diss. Dept of Social Policy, University of Helsinki. (unpublished) 
- Rotkirch, Anna (1996) Från skuggfält till nya yrken. Individualisering och kvinnoideal i dagens Ryssland. (From shadow fields to new professions. Individualization and ideals of femininity in contemporary Russia.) Licentiate diss., Dept of Social Policy, University of Helsinki. (unpublished) 
- The Man Question. Loves and Lives in Late 20th Century Russia. Doctoral dissertation, Department of Social Policy, University of Helsinki. 

Translations
- Slavoj Zizek: ‘Det postmoderna superegot’ (The Postmodern Superego) (together with Trygve Söderling), KONTUR 4-5 1999. 
- Annie Ernaux: Puhdas Intohimo (Passion simple) (together with J.P.Roos). Helsinki: WSOY, 1996. 

Conference papers 
- A.Rotkirch & E.Haavio-Mannila: Sexual Patterns and Social Stratification among young Men in Petersburg and Finland. Paper presented at the 7th ESA conference, Torun, 9-13.9.05, RN Sociology of Sexuality.
- 'New Woman, Atavistic Feelings?' Contrasting Kollontai's and Colette's Writings on Love'. Paper presented at The New Woman & the Aesthetic Opening: Unlocking Gender in 20th century Texts. Södertörn University College, Stockholm, October 10-12, 2003
- Comment to professor Carol Smart: ’The Changing Landscape of Family Life: Ambivalence and Commitment’. Riitta Jallinojan juhlaseminaari, 2.9.03, Säätytalo. 
- Habitus, Nature or Nurture? Towards a paradigm of evolutionary sociology. (with J.P.Roos) European Sociological Association Conference, Murcia, September 23-28, 2003.
- Whose equality? Gender, migration and domestic work. Power and Control – summer school. Turku, 28-29.8.03
- 'Frihet? Jämlikhet? Moderskap? Om kvinnlig migration.' Föredrag i arbetsgruppen 'Vårdens internationalisering.' Nordisk könsmaktkonferens, Oslo, 4-6.6.03.
- 'Miksi Aleksandra itkee? Tunteiden sosiologisesta ymmärtämisestä omaelämäkertatutkimuksessa.' Esitelmä Suomen historiallinen seuran seminaarissa, 26.5, Tieteiden talo.
- Can’t buy me love? Transnational care and maternal strategies. Paper presented at the 1st biennial Christina conference on women’s studies, University of Helsinki, 10-11.1.2003.
- 'Evoluutioteorian huomioimisesta sosiologian ihmisnäkemyksissä - esimerkkinä habitus ja saman sukupuolen yhteisöt'. (J.P.Roosin kanssa) Key note, Semiotiikan talvikoulu 7-9.2.03.
- Feministisen evoluutioteorian lähtökohdista ja mahdollisuuksista. Naistutkimuspäivät 2002, Turku, työryhmä ’Vähemmän tietoiset’ syrjinnän ja vastarinnan mekanismit.
- What is traditionalism? Extended motherhood and marriage in the autobiography of Aleksandra Chistyakova.Paper presented at the BEEGS conference, Södertörn, 4-5.10.02.
- "Överförd kärlek och konstiga mödrar. Om transnationellt moderskap ur ett evolutionsteoretiskt perspektiv." Föredrag på Nordisk sociologkongress, Reykjavik, 15-17.8.2002.
- "Habitus, evolution and the end of constructionism." Paper presented at the Nordic Sociology conference in Reykjavik, 15-17 August 2002.
- 'The internalisation of intimacy. A study of the chains of care.' 5th Conference of the European Sociological Conference, Helsinki, September 2002.
- ‘Usloviia i granitsy identichnosti’ (The conditions and borders of identity). Conference on Gender i seksual’nost’, European University of St Petersburg, 19-21.1.01. 
- ‘Feelings in Feminism – Sleeping With the Enemy?’ International research seminar on Power, Ethics and Feminism. University of Turku, 8-9.12.2000. 
- ‘Gender Polarisation and Liberalisation: Comparing Sexuality in St Petersburg, Finland and Sweden’ (together with Elina Haavio-Mannila). VI ICEES World Congress, Tampere, Finland, 29 July - 3 August 2000. 
- 'Gender Polarisation and Liberalisation in the Baltic Sea Area'. X. Nordiske sosialpolitiske forskerseminar: Okende sosial ulikhet - fra en enhetlig til en fragmentert sosialpolitikk. August 17-19 2000, Voksenåsen, Oslo. 
- “Loving With and Without Words. Same-Sex Experiences in Russian Women’s Autobiographies during Late Socialism.” International research seminar Models of Self: Russian Women’s Autobiographical Texts Helsinki, House of Sciences, 27-28th of August, 1999 
- “Shame, promiscuity and social mobility in Russian autobiographies from working poor milieus.” 4th European Conference of Sociology, RN1 : Biographical Perspectives on European Societies. Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, August 18-21, 1999. 
- '"I'm a typical woman, a variation of the norm". Depictions of exemplary love and family life in autibiographies from St Petersburg." Paper presented at the Finnish-Russian seminar on Institutions and practices of Everyday Life. OP-opisto, Kallahti, 2-4.9 1998. 
-  'Exemplary Soviet love life in women's sexual autobiographies'. Presentation at the Women's History Workshop, Dept of History, Unviersity of Minnesota, 7.4.1998. 
- 'Gender and generational differences in the sexual life course in St Petersburg and Finland', presentation at the Life Course Center, Dept of Sociology, University of Minnesota, 6.4.1998. 
- 'Sexual knowledge and the question of generations in Soviet Russia'. Paper presented at the graduate seminar "Generations: Family, Economics and Politics", University of Helsinki, June 4-6, 1997. Unpublished. 
- '"What kind of sex can you talk about?!" Acquiring sexual knowledge in three Soviet generations.' Paper presented at the 3rd ESA conference, University of Essex, 27-30.8.97, RN1: Biographical perspectives on European societies. 
- 'Women's agency and the sexual revolution in Russia.' Research seminar on Women's Active Citizenship, University of Joensuu, Dept of Social Policy and Philosophy, 11.9.97. 
- 'Women's sexual biographies from two generations. A first comparison between Finland and Russia'. Paper presented at the workshop on "Biographical perspectives on post-socialist societies", 13-17 November 1997, St. Petersburg. 

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